A daily analysis of physical activity and satisfaction with life in emerging adults.
| Autor: | Maher JP; Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. jpm5092@psu.edu, Doerksen SE, Elavsky S, Hyde AL, Pincus AL, Ram N, Conroy DE |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association [Health Psychol] 2013 Jun; Vol. 32 (6), pp. 647-56. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Oct 22. |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0030129 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: Subjective well-being has well-established positive health consequences. During emerging adulthood, from ages 18 to 25 years, people's global evaluations of their well-being (i.e., satisfaction with life [SWL]) appear to worsen more than any other time in the adult life span, indicating that this population would benefit from strategies to enhance SWL. In these studies, we investigated top-down (i.e., time-invariant, trait-like) and bottom-up (i.e., time-varying, state-like) influences of physical activity (PA) on daily SWL. Methods: Two daily diary studies lasting 8 days (N = 190) and 14 days (N = 63) were conducted with samples of emerging adults enrolled in college to evaluate relations between daily PA and SWL while controlling for established and plausible top-down and bottom-up influences on SWL. Results: In both studies, multilevel models indicated that people reported greater SWL on days when they were more active (a within-person, bottom-up effect). Top-down effects of PA were not significant in either study. These findings were robust when we controlled for competing top-down influences (e.g., sex, personality traits, self-esteem, body mass index, mental health symptoms, fatigue) and bottom-up influences (e.g., daily self-esteem, daily mental health symptoms, daily fatigue). Conclusions: We concluded that SWL was impacted by people's daily PA rather than their trait level of PA over time. These findings extend evidence that PA is a health behavior with important consequences for daily well-being and should be considered when developing national policies to enhance SWL. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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